As I lay there with my back on the bed, I had my forehooves set before me and stare up at the odd brown serpentine body overhead and smile and say, “Oh, hey! You’re Disarray, right? Hi Disarray!”
He frowns at me, which only looks like a smile and almost forces me to giggle as he says, “It’s Discord, foal! My name is Discord!”
I widen my eyes and normalize my mouth, “Oh! I’m sorry Discord! Uh, I’m Jessi! Jessi Trotsky!”
“I know who you are and it’s the company you keep that has me concerned!”
My eyes normalize, “Oh, you mean Twinkle Shine!” I smile. “Yeah, she’s my best friend and she’s just the greatest!”
His misshapen yellow and red eyes narrow, “It would seem, so…”
I continue at this point as the espresso I drank earlier has me hyper, “Yeah, I just wanted to know though, why did you make her tell the truth like that?”
His left eyebrow raises, which appears to lower from my vantage point as he continues to float in the air above me, “Because she needed to understand that she can trust some ponies…”
I nod and correct my mouth, “Okay, but how is that your place to do these things? I mean, wouldn’t it be better and more effective if she simply came to these realizations herself, rather than you forcing her to?”
“How do you know she would come to those realizations?”
I blink, “Well, she’s pretty smart?” I smile, “I bet she would’ve opened up just fine if me and Izzy just kept hanging out with her and working with her? I really don’t think you needed to intervene?”
“Now listen here, Jessi!”
I cut him off and don’t let him speak the next sentence, “Furthermore, the very fact that you somehow still felt the need to step in says a lot more about you than it does about Twinkle Shine, don’t you think?”
His eyes widen as he stares at me, grinning up at him and he points at me with the eagle talon on the right side of his body, “Look! I didn’t come here to be psychoanalyzed by a filly!”
I blink again as I continue to grin, “And yet, here you are! Lucky you!”
He throws his eagle talon and lion paw up at his sides, “Oh, for goodness sake!” he points down at me with his eagle talon again, “You’ve been closed off for far too long, Jessi! Time to open up!” before bending down to me and putting his index eagle nail on my forehead and causing my body to glow for a moment and then disappearing in a flash of light!
I frown, “Okay! That was weird!” before widening my eyes, “I’d better get Twinkle!”
<*****>
So I stood there in the center of my room on my haunches when I put the freshly rolled joint to my lips. I marvel at the new red hoof lighter that Izzy got for me in my left forehoof as I stand on my haunches about to fire up. I bring my left hoof to my mouth and squeeze the red plastic squeeze box device between the clefts, which causes a spark and a flame to ignite the joint already in my mouth with the tip held in my lips and I draw to ignite the end and bring the warm earthy smoke into my mouth and down my throat as I feel the cannabinoids immediately begin to do their work on me, via my lungs where the smoke is contained.
I suddenly hear a knock on my door behind me!
I exhale smoke quickly before me from my nostrils before saying, “Come in!” out the right side of my mouth before pursing my lips on the joint and taking another draw to bring warm vapors into my mouth once more with their floral and vegetative taste as a slow content smile forms on my snout.
The door swings open suddenly and I hear a familiar voice say, “Discord is back!”
I widen my eyes and turn my body around to witness my best friend, now trotting in the room as the door behind her shuts with a blue magical glow. I then slowly exhale smoke out my nose...
She stares at me with her burnt orange eyes and says, “He’s back and he did something to me!” before blinking them as her mouth goes straight, “The truth is, I really would like to get closer to you, but I see friendship in your direction as a liability because you might be killed…” and then widening her eyes suddenly!
I frown before squeaking out, “You gotta tell the truth now, huh?”
She blinks and nods, “Yup! I already told Sunny that I would very much like to view her as a motherly figure, but I keep thinking she’ll go away, later!”
My eyes widen as the burning stoge sits in the right side of my mouth, “Uh, you think maybe you have issues here, Jessi?”
She sighs, “Well, yeah! I,” she blinks, and starts “I know I have issues and I’ll be the first pony to admit it! But this isn’t right either! I shouldn’t just have to face it now, you know?”
I take the joint out with my right forehoof, and stare back at her sternly before asking, “If not now, then when?”
She widens her eyes and frowns, “Huh?”
I take a long breath in and out of my snout as I ash the joint on the glass ashtray to my right and lower my gaze to the unicorn while keeping my eyes fixed on her, “I had to face my monsters, Jessi… I guess it’s time to face yours?” I blink and raise my sight to her. “Why do you think we’ll go away?”
She sighs and seems visibly irritated when she stares at me with a scowl and says, “Having family and attachments makes you weak, because whenever those things get taken away from you, it hurts!” she gulps. “It’s better to be free and to not have any attachments, so you’ll have nothing to lose!”
I exhale smoke out the left side of my snout while the burning joint hangs on the right with the cardboard filter underneath the paper, buried in my lips, “Oh, golly! Uh, kinda late, don’t you think? I mean, you’re already attached to many different ponies!”
She lowers her shoulders as she sighs and wistfully looks over to her right, “Yeah, I know that! I know that you’re all liabilities!” she sighs again and stares back at me seriously, “Just more ways I’ll get hurt, later!”
I can’t help but chuckle as I exhale warm smoke out the left side of my mouth and use my right forehoof to bring the joint to the ashtray on my right again to flick it. “Well, golly gee! Now you’re infected, huh?”
She gazes back at me and widens her eyes to what I think is all the way before frantically replying, “Yeah! And it sucks!”
“Don’t I know it!” before bringing the joint back to my mouth while lowering my gaze.
She sighs again, “I sure am glad you’re smoking!”
I take the joint out of my mouth and avert my gaze to the left of the pony and exhale a cloud of smoke over there before staring back at her, “Why? You wanna get a contact buzz again?”
She smiles, “Well, yeah! I don’t like the idea of smoking it myself, but whenever I’m around you, I can always feel just a little bit better!”
I bring the joint back to my snout with my right forehoof and draw on it while squinting at her…
She nods and smiles, “Yeah, it’s probably healthier if I’m not smoking it myself!”
I lower my face as I continue to take a powerful drag of the stogie, causing the embers at the end to burn brightly and ash forms there and a small bit falls down onto the floor before me… I bring the joint out again with my right forehoof and mentally count to 5 while flicking the rest of the ash into the tray on my right before exhaling smoke directly into this other filly’s face as she raises her snout to begin taking it in with a big grin on her face… I smile at her and say, “Doesn’t matter! The chemicals are still there inside you and you’re still getting high!”
She lowers her view back to me, “I know that, but I’d much rather just pretend that it’s okay, so I can get high with you!” she widens her eyes and frowns. “That’s another thing I never told you about… Back when we both got stoned together and snuggled was one of the happiest times in my life and I secretly want to do it again, but I don’t like the idea of doing drugs…”
At this point I bring the cigarette to my lips with my right forehoof as I eyeball this teal green unicorn before me carefully… I ponder on the choice she appears to be making and its consequences… I then realize that it’s not really my call to make as I take it out of my mouth and breathe smoke into her face again before smiling and saying, “Okay, two things! First off, you obviously believe what you’re saying, because Discord made it so you can’t lie!” I nod, “That said, you should know that contact buzzes still count!” I sigh and gaze wistfully to the left before adjusting back to her. “But, since we’ve already gone this far, you bet your horseshoes we’re snuggling!” before nodding and putting the burning joint out in my glass ashtray by snuffing it from side to side…
Suddenly, the door has a golden glow on it’s knob and it opens to the left behind Jessi, and I can’t help but notice a distinct orange alicorn behind her that looks down at the unicorn with her cerulean eyes and says, “Are you doing okay for right now, my precious foal?” and trotting in and embracing her from behind!
Jessi widens her eyes while encased in the alicorn’s forehooves and can only barely stammer out with her dark orange eyes now enormous, “Oh yeah uh, this has been going on!”
Sunny raises her head and sniffs the air twice while continuing to embrace Jessi from behind, “Is something burning in here?”
I look up at her, “Oh golly! Yeah, I was just burning some of this sage and camphor incense I got and uh, well I guess it stays in the air for awhile, huh?” before bringing my right forehoof behind my neck to scratch it while looking up at her with my eyes as big as they will go for maximum cuteness and just hoping she doesn’t notice the ashtray on the table, carefully concealed behind my glass soda bottle, half full of dark cola…
She frowns, “Um, okay! Well, come on out, fillies! Me and Izzy need to talk with you!”
I widen my eyes while my mouth narrows and I suddenly think that it’s probably better that I establish a chemical barrier before hearing what they have to say and silently commend myself on smoking just then, “Oh, golly!”
<*****>
I stare at the two fillies across the table from me in the ultra-messy dining room, with a shelf behind me with many full drawers out and open as the orange alicorn on my left looks down at them. They both gaze up at me with wide open adorable eyes as Sunny explains, “Look! We know Discord did something to Jessi to make her unable to lie, just like he did to Twinkle earlier!” she shakes her head. “But I just can’t shake this feeling that there’s more to it than that? Like, he’s planning something else? But what?”
Jessi gazes up at the alicorn from the right of Twinkle with her wide open deep orange eyes, “Well, he obviously intended to make me open up by giving me the same curse as Twinkle Shine! But I think you’re right? This seems far too simple…”
I turn my head left to the alicorn, who stands there facing the two fillies, still sitting down at the table across from her, when I can’t help but grin when I notice the two pointy 2-inch candy corn fangs coming out of Sunny’s mouth!
Jessi is grinning to the right of the scene as Sunny faces her and doesn’t miss a beat, “Well, we know he’s the Lord of Chaos, right? What would the Lord of Chaos do?”
Twinkle has her brown eyes wide and poised at the alicorn when she says, “Oh, golly! Um, probably give you candy corn fangs?”
Sunny squints her eyes at the pegasus, “That seems oddly specific!”
Jessi blinks, “Well, that’s because he did it, Sunny! You now have candy corn fangs!”
Sunny’s eyes widen and move down to her mouth in front of her snout when she raises her right hoof and touches to verify that she does indeed have hard candy corn fangs!”
I continue smiling, “Sunny has candy corn fangs!”
She turns her head at me and widens her green eyes before saying, “Oh, yeah? Well, you have a blue cotton ball for a mane, now!”
I widen my eyes and feel my mane that now seems to be matted and cotton-like on my head. I stare up and see that it’s still the same dark blue color, just cottony now, as I exclaim, “Oh, wow! Uh, “ I adjust my eyes back to the alicorn. “Is this a good look for me?”
Sunny grins with her new fangs and giggles, “Oh yeah! The truth is, it helps balance out your pouf factor!”
I blink and look at the orange pony with a frown, “Pouf factor?”
She nods, “Yeah, your mane is just so poofy and with it all cotton-balled like that, it’s smaller and better, I’d say!”, she leans forward with her eyes enlarged. “Probably easier to manage, too?”
I normalize my eyes and smile when I realize what the alicorn is doing and reply, “Oh, yeah! And hey, your candy corn fangs are also pretty snazzy! I think they’re cute!”
She nods again, “Oh, thank you, Izzy! Your new cotton mane is adorable as well!”
I correct my mouth and eye her carefully. “Hey, you think you might be able to eat them?”
Twinkle finally pipes up from my immediate right of Sunny, “Uh, that would only be a good idea if candy corn were actually edible!”
Jessi to the right of Twinkle adds, “She’s got you there, Izzy! Nopony likes candy corn!”
I turn my neck right to the other unicorn across from me, “What? I like candy corn!”
Sunny widens her eyes and moves her head towards me without averting her gaze, “Really?”
I turn my head back left to face her, “Yeah!” I frown. “What?”
Sunny shakes her head, “Well, I guess you could always kiss me and eat off my fangs that way?”
I blink at this crazy suggestion as my head starts with a shake and mouth narrows with uncertainty, “Really?”
She starts herself and blinks, “Uh, never mind! I’ve just felt kinda funny since I went into Twinkle’s room earlier!”*
I gaze at her focused and frown, “Now, I wanna kiss you!”
She shakes her head and gives a wide-eyed start, “Wait, what?” before frowning at me…
I blink as I normalize my mouth and shake my head, “Uh, never mind!”
Suddenly, we all hear a loud reverberating voice shout as echoes fill the room, “OH FOR GOODNESS SAKE! I wanted to freak you out so we could do something else! Not turn Izzy into a lesbian!” before the big window behind the two fillies suddenly shows a miasma of blue swirls and colors… We then all hear the same voice again, slightly lower this time. “Welcome to The Abyss, girls!”
I frown as I stare out into the swirling blue void outside my window, “I wouldn’t say, lesbian? Bi-curious, maybe?”
(To be continued...)